Eek! A Mouse!: Difference between revisions

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* In ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'', in order to make the marionette robots as much like (stereotypical) women as possible, every one of them is programmed to be afraid of mice -- except the tomboyish Lime, who merely finds them cute.

* ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' had [[Lady of War|Tokine]] perform this trope, right after fighting a much bigger rodent ''that could breathe fire''. She and her grandmother also have a similarly disproportionate fear of cockroaches.

* In [[Ranma ½|Ranma ~~1/2~~]]'s second movie, all the girls run away from a horde of mice. Ranma stands there unaffected and comments on how silly they are to be afraid of mice, until he discovers that cats are following said mice. [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|At that point, he starts screaming in terror.]]

* In [[Ranma ½|[[Ranma Â½]]'s second movie, all the girls run away from a horde of mice. Ranma stands there unaffected and comments on how silly they are to be afraid of mice, until he discovers that cats are following said mice. [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|At that point, he starts screaming in terror.]]

* In the ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' [[Visual Novel]] ''Tomo to Kimi to Senjou de'', Athrun decides to make a robot pet for his crush Cagalli. He ends up giving it a hamster design, but when she first sees it she has this reaction and smashes it. Kira steps in and explains, and Cagalli is both very touched by the gesture and very apologetic for destroying it.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Kagome can handle [[Youkai]], blood, guts, wounds, two-timing boyfriends, time-travel, saving the world while trying to pass exams, lifting the spirits of the depressed, downtrodden and bullied and can even befriend the reclusive, the painfully shy, and aggressively hostile, but ask her to help a giant beast-faced [[Half-Human Hybrid|hanyou]] in his herb garden when there's an earthworm in plain sight and she'll fall to pieces.

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* Subverted (actually, double-subverted) on an episode of ''[[Unhappily Ever After]]''. Ryan, who believes the old legend that the Earth would spin out of its orbit if all the Chinese people in the world jumped off their chairs at the same time, panics when he spies a group of Chinese exchange students standing on their chairs in the school cafeteria. One of the students explains that they had just seen a mouse, causing Ryan to calm down. Once Ryan is gone, though, the student gets angry and mutters: "Curses! They're onto us!"

* The late 80s sitcom ''Kate And Allie'' spent an entire episode dealing with a mouse, complete with jumping on chairs and tables in fright(Allie's son Chip was taking care of his classroom's pet mouse and it got out of its cage). Subverted in that 1) they realized that they were [[Genre Savvy|behaving like 60s sitcom housewives]], 2) Kate and Allie were running a catering business at the time and were justifiably concerned about mice on the premises, and 3) Allie's sportscaster boyfriend also turned out to be deathly afraid of mice.

* A late episode of ''[[El Chavo ~~Del~~ Ocho]]'' has Doña Florinda's restaurant plagued by mice. She and Chilindrina exhibit the expected reaction throughout, especially in a hilarious scene where Chavo unknowinlgy brushes the latter's leg with the broom he is using to hunt the mouse; she has an absolute panic attack, thinking it's the mouse climbing up her leg.

* A late episode of ''[[El Chavo del Ocho]]'' has Doña Florinda's restaurant plagued by mice. She and Chilindrina exhibit the expected reaction throughout, especially in a hilarious scene where Chavo unknowinlgy brushes the latter's leg with the broom he is using to hunt the mouse; she has an absolute panic attack, thinking it's the mouse climbing up her leg.

* This is how Ma Gorg reacted to Fraggles on ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1 E10 Environmental Science|Environmental Science]] Troy freaks out when a lab rat accidentally escapes.